Why?
My wife told me there was this good film coming on TV and then made me sit through it with her.
It was some trashy straight to video flick called solar attack. At first it's science just looked Bad.
1) Humanity has risen the amount of methane in the stratosphere by 3% - I'll let that ridiculous premise slide as even climate scientists seem happy publishing rubbish like that.
2) The sun is throwing coronal mass at directly at the earth in several pulses?
3)somehow the thicker atmosphere makes earth more vulnerable to sun temperature ionized gas
then the film floundered around for a bit with the usual babbling ignorant (read Hollywood super) scientist vs government official crap and some random Russian sub. Then they came up a plan to stop the solar flare in it's tracks, yes that's right stop a solar flare. The plan runs - I shit you not - put it out with some water. At about this point my wife punched my in the arm repeatedly to get me to stop laughing.
Plan runs; WAIT until the atmosphere has been hit by ALL of the pulses (because the first few billion tonnes of sun stuff can be handled by the damaged atmosphere) and is on fire then get Russian sub to nuke the north pole throwing water into the atmosphere which puts out the solar flare. that's plan is Just EPIC.
Problems? (as if you can't see them):
1) Methane's to heavy to get out of the troposphere and given how greenhouse effective it is a 3% rise would be end of life as we know it.
2) The odds on this are astronomical but plausible but pulses? the earth would have to have stopped moving for more than one to hit directly.
3)the earths magnet protects us and given a solar flare is hundreds of times the size of earth a direct would just destroy us magnetosphere, atmosphere or no.
4) Billions of tonnes of superheated plasma. with water. really. Ignoring the fact that a nuke won't put up enough water to put out a fire across the whole planet and that it wouldn't be in a liquid state what water that goes up will be atomized by the superheated plasma anyway.
However if this ever happened I feel that this plan might actually be used, if only to keep some officials feeling important and distracted enough while they wait to die.
My wife told me there was this good film coming on TV and then made me sit through it with her.
It was some trashy straight to video flick called solar attack. At first it's science just looked Bad.
1) Humanity has risen the amount of methane in the stratosphere by 3% - I'll let that ridiculous premise slide as even climate scientists seem happy publishing rubbish like that.
2) The sun is throwing coronal mass at directly at the earth in several pulses?
3)somehow the thicker atmosphere makes earth more vulnerable to sun temperature ionized gas
then the film floundered around for a bit with the usual babbling ignorant (read Hollywood super) scientist vs government official crap and some random Russian sub. Then they came up a plan to stop the solar flare in it's tracks, yes that's right stop a solar flare. The plan runs - I shit you not - put it out with some water. At about this point my wife punched my in the arm repeatedly to get me to stop laughing.
Plan runs; WAIT until the atmosphere has been hit by ALL of the pulses (because the first few billion tonnes of sun stuff can be handled by the damaged atmosphere) and is on fire then get Russian sub to nuke the north pole throwing water into the atmosphere which puts out the solar flare. that's plan is Just EPIC.
Problems? (as if you can't see them):
1) Methane's to heavy to get out of the troposphere and given how greenhouse effective it is a 3% rise would be end of life as we know it.
2) The odds on this are astronomical but plausible but pulses? the earth would have to have stopped moving for more than one to hit directly.
3)the earths magnet protects us and given a solar flare is hundreds of times the size of earth a direct would just destroy us magnetosphere, atmosphere or no.
4) Billions of tonnes of superheated plasma. with water. really. Ignoring the fact that a nuke won't put up enough water to put out a fire across the whole planet and that it wouldn't be in a liquid state what water that goes up will be atomized by the superheated plasma anyway.
However if this ever happened I feel that this plan might actually be used, if only to keep some officials feeling important and distracted enough while they wait to die.
